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WTSP 10 News
February 12, 2018
“He created a firestorm ... of criticism,” said Clarence B. Jones, King's adviser and the speechwriter who helped shape the iconic Dream speech. Jones is now a diversity professor at the University of San Francisco, and a scholar-in-residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King, Jr. Research andÃâà...
Lasentinel
February 7, 2018
22, at 7:30 p.m., the Skirball and the Gateway Educational Foundation will host “Passing the Torch—From Selma to Today, Lessons from Leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.” Ambassador and minister Andrew Young, Dr. Bernard Lafayette Jr., and Dr. Clarence B. Jones will share strategies to transformÃâà...
KQED
January 18, 2018
Martin Luther King may have never delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech if it weren't for two musicians. ... King moved aside his script and began to improvise the speech's most iconic passage, and that dream became synonymous with the civil rights movement as .... Clarence B. Jones attends PTTOW!
Minnesota Public Radio News
June 29, 2017
Aspen Ideas Festival: What you need to know about Martin Luther King ... Originally, Clarence B. Jones didn't want to work with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. ... about "the role and responsibility of the negro professional" to convince the young lawyer to drop what he was doing and join the fight for Civil Rights.
Cherry Hill Courier Post
June 9, 2017
PALMYRA – Clarence B. Jones repeatedly expressed gratitude for the opportunity to come back to his alma mater after nearly 70 years. ... to do under the leadership of working with Martin Luther King Jr., we did in the genuine belief that what we were doing in ensuring the passage of the Civil Rights Act ofÃâà...
Burlington County Times
June 8, 2017
Martin Luther King Jr., had one main question for the country in his famous “I Have a Dream” speech: “Just what kind of nation are we?” ... The roundtable was the first official event of the Dr. Clarence B. Jones Institute for Social Advocacy, which the district officially founded this week in Jones' honor.
Burlington County Times
June 6, 2017
Palmyra High School honors Clarence Jones, alum who was a civil rights pioneer .... On Tuesday, Palmyra High School dedicated its newly named Clarence B. Jones Library in his honor. Next to the name, and above the door, there is a memorial plaque describing his life's work and accomplishments withÃâà...
Philly.com
June 5, 2017
Since then, the prominent civil rights activist has been fighting racism, working during the 1960s alongside the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a lawyer, adviser, and speechwriter. Jones, 86, is currently a scholar-in-residence at Stanford University's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute.
Cherry Hill Courier Post
May 30, 2017
Clarence B. Jones graduated from Palmyra High School in 1949 and went onto have a successful law career. But few students and staff at the high school over the years knew one of their own had assisted Martin Luther King Jr. with the “I Have a Dream” speech that the famed civil rights leader recited onÃâà...
Burlington County Times
May 1, 2017
“In 12 years, from 1956 until April 4, 1968, with the exception of the presidency of Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. may have done more to achieve political, social justice and equality in America than any other person or event in the previous 240-yearÃâà...
